Barack Obama is indeed one of the most influential political figures in the 21st century. He served two terms as the 44th ...

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“We are the free world now.” Those words from Raphael Glucksmann, a French socialist member of the European Parliament, captured the pearl-clutching outrage of Europeans after the Trump administration ...

The first of the 5-foot-tall concrete letters, quoting the former president's 2015 "You Are America" speech, are being placed ...

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A major milestone was reached Tuesday at the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side.

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